20 best uses of the HTML snippet widget

Need a social feed on your website? That home page missing a great slideshow? How about a booking form for your online clients?

Well, step this way my friend and take a look at the tool that can perform all these tasks and more. The HTML Snippet widget.

For anyone who doesn’t know, the HTML Snippet widget is one of our most popular and useful tools.

On the surface, just a simple box, it allows you to paste HTML code into any page of your website.

This means that hundreds of third-party features and applications that otherwise wouldn’t be compatible with our software, can actually be used.

Come with us then, on a tour of our best and lesser-known uses, as well as saying hello to some of the lovely Moonfruiters putting them to good use.

Rollover images

Since the debut of the HTML widget there have been some awfully creative discoveries by some of our users. Not least designer Matthew Bick, who created a new way of adding interactive rollover images and buttons to his site.

FAQ section

And we dive straight into another great bit of code, this time written by long-term user ‘Dino’.

This snippet allows you to add an interactive FAQ section to any page in your site, so any visitors can visit your website, access a list of questions and click to reveal the answer to a particular query.

Twitter feed

Not to be outdone by Facebook, Twitter is also compatible with our little snippet box. Much to the delight of writing blogger Chloe Wright.

Phone number link

So, say a customer needs to call you, what’s the best way of making sure they get through? By adding a direct link to your mobile from your website of course.

Incredibly easy to implement, but really very useful if you’re running a business from your website. A phone link allows clients viewing your website on a mobile to press the number on screen and their phone will immediately start calling you.

Tables

Sort your text into nice rows and columns thanks to online tinkerers Text Fixer. They allow you to create and embed tables of various sizes and styles in just a few minutes, which means you can customise them to totally fit your websites aesthetic.

Maybe you have your own suggestion for the list or even something you’ve created yourself. If so, do feel free to share in the comments section below and we’ll gladly add your discovery to the mix. More the better we say.

And, if you haven’t got a website with us yet, but really want to try out these features, then you can start a free trial today. What you waiting for?

Thanks Andy! It will be brilliant for Moonfruit to include ShopIntegrator’s in your list of great 3rd party HTML Snippet’s.

It will give your customer’s even more choice when building their Moonfruit site if they want to use different payment processors for example such as Sage Pay, WorldPay, Authorize.Net, PayFast, First Data and others we support. Merchant’s can sell deliverable goods with shipping costs, digital download products and customised items in the same shop using our moonfruit HTML Snippet ecommerce add-in.

Thank you for featuring Silk Interiors. We have a new home page now, but we still use the phone number feature you described. As well as a Mailchimp newsletter opt in form. And a Google Map showing distance that we will travel for a free measuring service. We’ll soon be adding a slideshow to the home page, just waiting for our photographer to take some new photos of client’s work.

Hi Bob
You can embed a site counter using the following site (it doesn’t cost anything): http://www.simplehitcounter.com/
All you need to do is generate the code and then embed it using the HTML Snippet Widget. Hope that helps!
Amita